This is Mississippi
Frances Martel may not like it, but this slice of Mississippi life is … well … illuminating:
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This JFK speech makes Rick Santorum want to hurl
It’s a remarkable reaction, to a remarkable speech. Read more
Right wing group withdraws slave language from marriage pledge Bachmann signed
When they or their parents weren't being sold off to other plantations, beaten or raped, the FAMiLY Leader says slave kids had it pretty good!
Well that didn’t take long. A conservative group that put out a marriage pledge saying slave kids had it better than black kids today, because at least they had a mother and father … gulp … has withdrawn the language. Too bad Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum already signed on to the old language. Read more
Slowly but surely, American women are losing the right to choose
With state legislatures and Congress going after abortion full force, “personhood” laws cropping up around the country, and even victims of rape and incest facing an increasingly callous, mostly male army of anti-abortion zealots in elected office, American women’s right to decide whether to give birth has never been in greater jeopardy. Read more
On the wrong side of rapture; believers’ hopes dashed **UPDATED**
[Loomis, Rick -- B581249776Z.1 OAKLAND, CA. -- FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2011 -- Harold Camping, delivering what he promises is his final appearance on the radio and TV call in show "Open Forum", which he has hosted for decades. Camping's Family Radio spent $100 million promoting his prediction that the end of the world would come on Saturday, May 21, 2011 starting with a series of earthquakes originating in New Zealand. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
Sure, most people are having a lot of fun with Harold Camping’s “wrong-way rapture” prediction fail. But for Camping’s true believers, the rapture that didn’t happen was potentially devastating — in at least one case, life-threatening. Read more
Apocalypse now? 5 explanations Harold Camping can use if the world doesn’t end tonight
FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2002 file photo, Harold Camping speaks while holding the Bible, in San Leandro, Calif. A loosely organized Christian movement has spread the word around the globe that Jesus Christ will return to earth on Saturday, May 21, 2011, to gather the faithful into heaven. While the Christian mainstream isn't buying it, many other skeptics are believing it. The prediction originates with Camping, the 89-year-old retired civil engineer, who founded Family Radio Worldwide, an independent ministry that has broadcasted his prediction around the world. (AP Photo, File)
Noted “end of the world” expert Harold Egbert Camping is waiting on the rapture. Just in case he hasn’t been good enough to skip the tribulation, of course, he’s stashed about $70 million of the Devil’s lucre. But if he and the other Elect of God are still here tomorrow, Harold’s gonna have some explaining to do. Read more
Latest GOP anti-abortion bills could impact rape, incest victims
It’s almost inconceivable – House Republicans, with a handful of Democrats – have passed a bill that could force rape and incest victims to prove to the IRS that they were impregnated by force. Read more
(Video) Franklin Graham can’t say Holocaust Jews would go to heaven
So, Franklin Graham, the Official Ministerial Supporter of Donald “Effing” Trump, goes on Bill O’Reilly’s show and pretty much gives Christianity a bad name … again. Read more
Those whom Jesus loved: God, government, rich and poor (plus Video from the ‘This Week’ debate)
Henry Ossawa Turner, "The Thankful Poor"
Whether you’re a believer, or just viewing it philosophically, who has the greater love of God: the rich, who many modern Christian churches say are blessed, as evidenced by their wealth and success, or the poor, who the Jesus of the Gospels defended? Read more
‘Are you there, God? It’s me, Rick Perry’
With his state facing a natural disaster, Governor Rick Perry is asking God to make it rain… Read more
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